Those who’ve been with me on this movie review-writing venture from the beginning may remember a little review of a larger-than-life movie, Safe Haven, which was given to us about a year and a half ago.

The word that came to mind repeatedly while viewing Begin Again is "quaint." As in, "Aw, how quaint that Adam Levine is acting in movies now," and, "The idea of Keira Knightly being a brooding singer-songwriter is so quaint!"

In Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer, by the year 2031, the earth has frozen over, and the world’s only survivors are packed into this technological wonder of a train that barrels around the globe in a constant effort to not freeze up and expire.